A rather stunning sky accompanied me on my walk into work this morning - yes THIS morning. Due to a very long and quite dull story involving a bunch of my colleagues in Bulgaria, I elected to work today in Lieu of a day…
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Dog at home, thing at workI've decided that these are my fave photos that I took today.. I took my camera into work today to take a bunch of photos of everyone wearing their Festive Jumpers - for our staff Christmas card. A stink load of cash…
- Probably the nicest content on the internet, today.
This made me smile - I think that was it's intention. It's quite cutesy and all that, but I liked it. Chicago's Magical Piano: Embedded video I bet they had some fun with that. Not much has happened of note in the past…
Kill Your TelevisionThe phrase "Cord Cutter" came into my sphere of awareness recently. It's an American phrase meaning people who have cut their cable TV contract and now typically rely on the internet for their TV viewing. They've cut…
- 365 - nearly done
Dull blog alert. Only the die 'ard dragondrop readers will make it to the end. You have been warned. The normal days are drawing to a close on this (365) blog project. By that, I mean, the days that have no significance…
These guys brightened up my MondayA high propencity of the keep left signs in my 'hood have developed a personality or two, overnight. I'm going to chalk it up as Art. Others, I dare say would call it vandalism. I particularly like the way that it feels…
Christmas Concert and nappy sack horrorWe've just got in from watching Felix in concert. He was playing percussion and keyboard with the Harrogate Youth Percussion Ensemble (HYPE) He was good. They were good. They played a version of Clocks that Felix…
How's about playin the hardest tune in ya box?I've just got some film back from the lab. I shot most if it on the [[1-Projects/DragonDrop-Adventures/posts/2013/2013-11-24-stag-do-in-dentdale|stag do in Dentdale]] I went on recently. Semi good results. Semi. The…
- Friday
Friday. Mid drinkypoos at a friends house who is celebrating his 52 birthday. He took the candles on his cake and made them say 25. Later, I'm DJing. Its been a big old week. Parents evening and heavy duty work. I've…
- ▶ Amazon testing drones for same-day delivery service
This could be a massive change to the world if they get it right (or wrong). Google are also looking at this - "same day delivery drones" - basically, quad copters that can deliver a 5lb package up to 10 miles from a…
BruceThis is Bruce. He's Elsie's best friend. They were born about a week apart from each other and have grown up together. He's half Springer, half Tibetan Terrier. He's ace. Today at lunchtime, we got to take Elsie round…
Residual self imageI've updated my residual self image in the internets. I've updated LinkedIn, Skype and Twitter (prolly got a couple more networks to go, but..) this evening, I updated Facebook with it as my profile pic. I quite like it…
- Monday morning
I'm working with a team in a different timezone at the moment. They are two hours ahead and so it made sense to me at the time, when I suggested last Friday that I start at 07:00 so that we could start the day / meeting…
Where the ducks play footballAnnie sleepy head in my backpack We spent the afternoon on Ilkley Moor (with hats on). Felix (our boy, age 15) made the transition from autumn to winter (last night to this morning) under canvas, at a Scout camp in…
Harrogate Christmas Market : Aborted missionWe attempted the Christmas Market at the bottom of Montpelier Hill (Just opposite the Slug and Lettuce) today. A mix of stalls and food concessions were the main stay with a smattering of small fairground rides at the…